On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 22:58, Richard Hirst wrote: > 1. Ugly borders to dialog boxes, using +-| rather than graphics chars. > (this on vga, not on serial). This is a real shame, the installer was > looking pretty smart in my non-i18n build. I'm assuming other i18n > enabled archs have this same problem...
Yup. This is caused by legacy newt/slang/termcap problems. From what I remember there is an assumption somewhere that the line drawing characters are only a single byte, whereas a two-byte sequence is needed for UTF8. Unfortunately I think we just have to live with it for the time being. > 2. Doesn't always redraw the screen. e.g. mke2fs output overwrites the > the display without clearing first, and previous dialog box is sometimes > visible round the endges of the current one. (this with French, not with > English). There's an important bug open for this already. I don't know the number off the top of my head, but the title is something obvious like "dbootstrap: screen not cleared". > I used the i386 language set, although I guess I could use more on ia64 > as there is no real space constraint. Yup. ARM does the same. You can set the language list to whatever you want, though it would be a good idea to check the stats to make sure the translations you're including aren't desperately stale. Having an install that is only half translated would make for a pretty miserable user experience. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
